The payments come after a long history of the USDA refusing to process loans from Black farmers, approving smaller loans compared to white farmers, and putting foreclosures on Black farmers ...

According to him, he is still battling for 120% debt relief for Black farmers, a measure approved by Congress in 2021 as part of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package.

About 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and swaths of land when the Black-majority country’s then-president, Robert Mugabe, launched the often-chaotic redistribution program in 2000.